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Another mistake/ how many mistakes?

I am so sorry for all the stupidity....They don't know this is all a show....these people are nothing but small puppets!!!
How many mistakes they should make to finally become aware of the reality? GOD !!!!

Its a great election

People try to say it does not matter, but the excitement in Iran is palpating. The stakes are very high, both sides realize its an important election. And there may be problems later, but its a great election and it shows the people of Iran will reinvent the revolution.

انفجار نور سبز

مگه حرف رهبر دام ظله العالی را نشنیدین "حالا شما رای بدین دمکراسی پیشکشتان". موسوی هم میگه زیر من حجاب اصلا اجباری نخواهد بود اصلا من لخت و پتی بیشتر حال می‌کنم، فقط از در خانه میری بیرون مقنعه و چادرت یادت نره.

An...4..., I'm surprised you don't know yet

"How do you know you will get something worse?!!". Let's set Iran aside for a moment. In any election, the incumbent will be guaranteed victory if the voters who oppose him/her stay away from the polls. Boycotts leave the voting arena to the core supporters of the incumbent, in this case Ahamdinejad, to sweep the election "victory".

I am sure even the mollahs count the votes in this sense because all candidates are vetted and hand-picked by them.

So the end goal, in my opinion, is to prevent Ahamdinejad from winning his certainly disastrous second term.

Now would you please explain what "meaning" not voting has in this context, other than helping Ahmadinejad?

Ey mellate sare kar... har 4

Ey mellate sare kar... har 4 sal yek bar be ye nooei jomhoori eslami kharetoon mikhone....

To 1L: you do not know what a VOTE is

" If i dont vote, I get something worse, if i vote, at least i move Iran a tiny bit closer to the end goal. Better than those just sitting around "

How do you know you will get something worse?!! If you believe mullahs count each and every single vote and respect your vote to no matter whom and count it as a vote in favor of that person and believe that after all mullah Khamneii's decision does not count and your decision does, then by all means go and vote.

AND how do you know that you are moving Iran a bit closer to the "end goal" by voting?! what is the "end goal"? If your "end goal" is the same as mullahs' i.e. further legitimizing the IRI in the the world , then by all means go and vote. AND if you just want to vote because it makes you feel important and you feel like you are doing something regardless of the value of your vote, I disagree and believe boycotting and not voting has a meaning and is like doing something too.

My vote has a value for me and I don't want to throw it away jsut for the sake of DOING SOMETHING.

Attention 1L

Dear 1L

Please explain to us, what kind of results do you think the country will get, when nothing really changes? You call this progress?

Have you heard any of the so called candidates tell people (not what they going to do) how they going to do the false promises they give? There are none. They all know they can't do a damn thing even if they want to.

That is not progress, they are just trying to prolong the life of A Terrorist Islamic regime. It has been Never about people. Pure Simple.

this is all fake, they are paid

it's all paid agents. don't believe it.

Still have not heard

What do those critizing the people voting, organizing and attending rallies want the people of Iran to do?

Cmon now, your in some foreign country, living comfortably, observing from a distance. What do you have in mind? dont be shy, tell us in a realistic manner (without calling out "ARABIZED" and "ISLAMIST" etc) what your alternative (realistic) plan is .. why shouldnt people like myself vote? If i dont vote, I get something worse, if i vote, at least i move Iran a tiny bit closer to the end goal. Better than those just sitting around waiting for a magical democracy to come out of thin air

They back Hossein because Ahmadinejad like Bush ruined Iran!

Ahmadinejad might not be an evil man (I cannot judge), but with good intention, he ended up ruining the country! Our oil income in the last 3 years was more than previous 16 years, but he manged to throw it all out. Increased the inflation from 10.4% to over 25%. Got away with economic council. Never mind the israel deal!

I am sure I could live with him as a neighbor or co-worker but not as a president! Actually, he is my older brother's neighbor in Narmak. Most of them like him!

Hossein will bring a positive change as compare to Mahmoud, he is better and that's why people are dancing! They are tired of inflation! he gives them hope! They desperaely need hope! Do you blame them? He is their Hussein Obama!

Hossein vs Hussein!

No to islamic

Domination-brutality in Iran it is over soon-{RastA Khiz Iran}is based on Irans{Culltuer}-Are you Iranian???

To 1L

When I talk to so many Iranians around me and see how little they really know about the situation in Iran now, and what has happened in the past 30 years, the human rights, the political prisoners, and how little they care, it makes me think something is wrong.

When Mousavi names 100 times the "Emam" (Khomeini) and how great he was and how he sought his advice during hard times, I keep remembering the "Emam" who was behind so many executions, arrests, tortures, and the same "Emam" who didn't mind sending 14-year old kids to the front to get butchered. And when I see this kind of video, I have a hard time understanding these students and their slogans:

//www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqYi-O9hrVo&feature...

“Yaare Khomeini aamad”...

And sorry, when I see this video, something deep inside in me tells me that I am right. I still have doubts about the sincerity of many of these people, or I should say I am very skeptical of the true reasons they are backing Mousavi. I feel they are just in there for fun OR they really are desperate, or they are really ignorant.

Maybe I have missed something?

But in any case, I am not against progress in Iran. I would love Iran to take the true path of democracy. What I see instead is people being fed illusions and told lies and due to their daily struggle and the nature of the regime, it is impossible for them to do anything but to go with the flow and give it some hope, at least once every four years.

I have nothing against elections as long as they are open and allow people of various ideologies to participate. Where are the secular forces, the women? Is there any one that has not been around in the past 30 years in the upcoming elections?

And please my friend, do not insult your countrymen who are living abroad and have been through a lot of sacrifices and hardships. They love Iran and would love to go back, but for various reasons, they just can't. Many have lost friends, relatives, loved ones. Unfortunately you see, there are winners and losers in every revolution, and today we are on the side of the losers, far away from or country, in foreign lands where we could have settled down and completely forget Iran, but we continue to love Iran and its people. Never will I hope for Iran to be attacked, for people to be harmed or for foreign forces to occupy that country. I just hope a true democracy and social justice can prevail for all Iranians.

To 1L MKOs, Monarchists and Zionists...

This election is just a MAKE UP on DIEING ISLAMO FASCIST regime. I'll bet you We'll survive even with the little brain we got , and we make sure BRAINLESS ARABIZED CREATURES like YOU, BURIED with ISLAMO FASCIST regime in Iran.

MKOs, Monarchists and Zionists

You guys cant help but downplay anything that resembles progress in Iran. You are likely over 45, living outside Iran and part of a dying generation of people. Your views DIE with you.

To all the cynics:Do you think democracy comes over night? what goes on in your little brains? Please enlighten the rest of us ("IRI apologists") and tell us what you think should happen in Iran (give us something realistic please). 

What do you want the people of Iran to do? Do you want them to go out onto the streets and risk their lives and riot while you sit in your McMansion in Beverly Hills and await your glorious return to Iran once all the dirty work has been done? 

Do you want them to boycott the elections for you? because you dont believe in anything affiliated with post-1979 Iran? Who are you to demand how people should vote? 

Do you want a military strike? do you see people running out after bombs demolish their homes and start demanding a democracy? LOL

When you criticize these people you insult every Iranian who lives in Iran and has given their sweat and blood to the reform movement. I cant wait til your idol, the unworthy and dahati, Reza Pahlavi and his retirement age supporters are finally dead. 

Re: Rapping for Mousavi

//www.youtube.com/watch?v=elqlNSKFw2g

Exciting

This is turning out to be a very exciting election with passions running high among supporters on all sides (except the LA and Paris exiles ... hahah ... sorry, couldn't resist).  The tv debates are going on, but Iranian politics is still too tame, they're not going after each other on issues.  Mousavi will need to be tougher.  I hope Karroubi goes after Ahmadinejad and rips into his economic and foreign policies.  

EXACTLY

exactly

Ask any young Iranian that

Ask any young Iranian that actually lives in Iran, when was a better time  under Ahmadinejad or khatami? All you saltanaties freedom fighters first go ahead and live in Iran and then talk.

To Anonymous4645646546456

Well said my friend. We have a lot of them here in Toronto where their daddies have bought the most expensive condos and they are driving Mercedes, BMW's and are spending thousands and thousands of dollars stolen from Iran in drinking, partying, fancy cell phones, listening to crappy Persian dance songs and going 6 times a year to Iran...That's the sad society that the IR has created...

These are the Iranian voters

If you don't like what you see, then don't go back there for your holidays!

It's not up to you and me to tell them what to do, who to vote for and how to live. Either help them rebuild and move forward or get out of their way.

IRANdokht

To Jimmy: they are all feeding from the system

These are children of the families who've got vested interests in the continuation of the IRI and part of the system.

They are showing their support for a system which feeds them, a system under which their daddies and families have become quite wealthy, some with astronomical wealth. These are the NO KISEH of the regime. You see them drive BMWs, mercedes and jags with designer sunglasses and fashionable outfits in upper neighborhoods of Tehran.

Their fathers, brothers and family members are all eating from the same bowls filthy rich mullahs and their offspring known as aghazadehs are.

You wanna find them just go to the ultra rich residential parts of Tehran, to Zafaraniyah, Kamraniyah, Niavaran, Fereshteh, jamshidyeh, Velenjak ....

The irony here is the rap songs such as the one above are officially illegal in Iran and remain as underground music I bet.

Realities?

Boycotting or not boycotting, what’s the difference if it’s a show? It’s just funny to see people being fooled and having no real idea of what election is, what democracy is, or what human rights are...Just having a good time and then forget all about problems for the next 4 years.

To jimjamal: I don't live in Iran and don't want to live where an akhond is my head of state.
Does that satisfy you?

Talk about divisive!

Iranians are a complicated bunch.  Now we have some people complaining about, of all things, what the young educated urbanites are wearing; that this is an excuse to go out and have fun (you know since the Obama events were just philosophical discussions about policy); and how everyone should stay home because despite the transformation of Iranian politics, all of this is a sham.

Luckily, the cynics are in the minority and nobody really cares about their negativity. 

The choice is obvious: don't vote and have Ahmadinejad (Iran's George Bush) for another four disasterous years, or vote and hope for another round of gradual change and oppennes...I said gradual and within the context of the IRI political establishment (meaning if you wnat R.P. to come back, keep dreaming). 

Like it or not, they are the

Like it or not, they are the ones living under IRI, not you or I.

I'm actually glad that its a heated election (eventhough its all a show) because all the voices of boycotters coming from iranian expants is being ignored. It's a step in the right direction. Boycotting will never solve things.

re: Jimmy

do you live in Iran? If not, GTFO! These kids know better than anyone else the realities of Iran because they live in it! Stop pretending to know about iran.

To Anonymous123456: all a re-run

But this is all a very tasteless repeat of what we witnessed four years ago! the same ballyhoo, the same theatrical fanfare.

The same girls (mostly coming from nouveau riche families with vested interests in the IRI) with the same ten pounds of make-up, frosted highlighted hair, false eyelashes, French manicures, headbands, armbands, etc. (this time in emerald green instead of orange and yellow) YET this time around advertising for Mir Hussein, instead of Rafsanjani oh excuse me "Hashemi"!

Back then the pro-IRI reformers and lovers of the IRI claimed that more than 60% had participated and voted BUT when Ahamidnejad popped out, the same who had claimed earlier that more than 60% had voted, changed their story and nagged that the reason Ahmadinejad instead of Kuseh had popped out as winner was because mullah Khamenei and Co. cheated big time and the reason they could cheat was because majority stayed away and boycotted the dog and pony show of the elections.

Superficial

How on Earth will a bunch of superficial-looking kids, moved by collective hysteria due to their boredom and trying to copy what they see here in the Western countries electoral campaigns (banners, colors…) convince me that this is democracy according to international standards, or even democracy in progress?

All of sudden, we are asked to believe that the Iranian population is after democracy and reforms? This is all a good excuse to go out and have some fun, like a rock concert, a major event that doesn’t happen too often in Iran.

I am sure that if you bring any American rock star or major Hollywood star, he/she will attract 5 million crazy young Iranians in the streets, even though most of them will not have a clue about what is really going on. It’s just an excuse to have fun and act Westernized.

Don’t you guys remember the German football team that came to Iran in 2004 for a freaking friendly game against Iran? People were going hysterical and completely nuts, there were thousands of them driving behind the German bus, thousands watching the Germans practice and trying to touch the players…This was the first time in 25 years that a major team had come to Iran so no one wanted to miss that.

These poor Iranian youngsters are just bored and do not necessarily understand the real situation or the dynamics of politics in the Islamic Republic.

To Sima: I am amazed

Mooshe koor toro bokhoreh aziz e smart ass!

If you don't believe in US democracy, what are you doing living in it in teh first place?

You have a choice, don't you?

The Green revolution

Ok, a good portion of the crowd seem to be, to use Hassan Dabashi's expression, Gucci revolutionaries, the Iranian urban upperclass finding political reprsentation in Moussavi, but there seems to be others too. The music may be cheesy but isn't this the youth culture everyone seems to be gaga about on this site? What do you expect, classy well read cosmopolitans? Look for them in Berkely not in Tehran. This is what it is.

Do not let them fool you again

Yes my Iranian country men and women do not let them fool you again do you think in this regime men and women are equal?.I do not understand why only women are in this video remember last election? with all those propaganda for Akbar Shah still that midget came out of leader,s sleeve yet Gashte Ershad is arresting women every day in streets. No do not vote and say no to this unmanly and botcher regime...